• Hear the premiere performance of a new work by Dan Coleman, TSO Composer-in-Residence
• Beethoven wrote Symphony No. 8 in 1812 at the age of 41. He referred to the generally light-hearted (but not lightweight) No. 8 as “little Symphony in F,” distinguishing it from Symphony No. 6, a longer work also in F
• The surprise and humor of No. 2’s Scherzo became central qualities of Beethoven’s musical personality found in later works

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• Hear the premiere performance of a new work by Dan Coleman, TSO Composer-in-Residence
• Beethoven wrote Symphony No. 8 in 1812 at the age of 41. He referred to the generally light-hearted (but not lightweight) No. 8 as “little Symphony in F,” distinguishing it from Symphony No. 6, a longer work also in F
• The surprise and humor of No. 2’s Scherzo became central qualities of Beethoven’s musical personality found in later works

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